Plug-ins Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Firefox-Mac-PDF allows in-line PDFs for Firefox

by Cory Bohon (Jun 18th, 2008)

If you switched to Firefox from another browser like Safari that supports in-line PDF viewing (that's the ablity to look at a PDF in the browser instead of downloading it), then you might have been disheartened to learn that Firefox does not support this feature natively. However, you will find ...

SIMBL plugin woes after 10.5.3?

by Cory Bohon (May 28th, 2008)

Did you get home only to find that Mac OS X 10.5.3 had been released today? Well, just as some users were unpacking and installing the shiny new update, issues with SIMBL plug-ins were discovered. If you have SIMBL plugins installed, then you may have an error show up when you try to launch an ...

MsgFiler 2.0.1 is ready

by Dave Caolo (Jan 2nd, 2008)

Email jockeys, this one is for you (as long as you use Apple's Mail, that is). Adam Tow has updated MsgFiler to version 2.0.1. For the uninitiated (we've written about it before), MsgFiler is a Mail plug-in that lets you sort, search and assign messages to mailbox folders with a few keystrokes. It's ...

Mobile Safari plug-in downloads files to your iPhone/iPod touch

by Erica Sadun (Dec 4th, 2007)

Now this is just amazingly cool. iPhone hacker hachu developed a download plug-in for MobileSafari. Once installed and customized, it allows you to download data off the Internet and store it on your iPhone or iPod touch local disk in the /var/root/Downloads folder. I downloaded the package (it's ...

PlugSuit: legacy plugins in Safari 3 for Leopard

by Christina Warren (Oct 27th, 2007)

I have to be honest, as a browser, Safari, on its own, does very little for me. In my pre-switcher life I loved Firefox, in large part because of its plug-in structure - and although Safari is certainly more stable than FF (on my system at least) - it's not the same. Luckily, a number of good ...

Facebook Exporter updated for iPhoto '08

by David Chartier (Aug 22nd, 2007)

Attention all ye Facebook and iPhoto users: you may feel free to begin using iPhoto '08, now that Facebook has updated their Facebook Exporter plug-in. We first found this plug-in back in March, and while I'm definitely not the most active Facebook user or photo uploader, I don't think anything ...

iPlace: Image download helper for Safari

by David Chartier (Aug 21st, 2007)

Considering the graphical nature of the web, I'm surprised more features and plug-ins haven't appeared to solve the problem of downloading images from sites as well as iPlace does. Operating as a SIMBL plug-in for Safari (including the 3.0 beta), iPlace allows you to specify multiple locations on ...

Copy as HTML plug-in, amongst others, for VoodooPad

by David Chartier (Jul 25th, 2007)

As I am finally wrapping my head around just how useful Gus Mueller's VoodooPad can actually be, I'm getting more interested in tinkering with how it can be extended and made to do my bidding. Dubbed as a "garden for your thoughts," VodooPad is a great place to jot down ideas, lists and notes with a ...

FlickrShop: Upload images from Photoshop to Flickr

by David Chartier (Jul 14th, 2007)

The wait has been a long one, but Flickr superpowers have finally arrived for Photoshop in the form of FlickrShop. As you can see, most of the basics are all available, such as tagging, adding to existing photosets or creating new ones, setting privacy and even specifying dimensions so you don't ...

More ecto 3 details, a screenshot and roadmap revealed

by David Chartier (Jun 7th, 2007)

Adriaan Tijsseling, developer of the Mac OS X version of the ecto blogging client, has been teasing us with sneak peeks and development details for some time now, but he's just posted another more revealing screenshot of ecto3, along with more details and a basic roadmap. Adriaan has touted ecto3 ...

Apple Mail plug-in roundup

by David Chartier (May 27th, 2007)

Since I solved a number of the issues plaguing my Mail account setup - including a workaround to kinda use Gmail over IMAP (more on that soon) - I have sunk my teeth back into Apple's excellent email client. Now I'm pretty happy with using a few plug-ins like Scott Morrison's stellar MailTags 2 and ...

iConcertCal updates with iCal exporting, better listings and more

by David Chartier (May 9th, 2007)

This must have slipped under our radar back in March, but iConcertCal, the both clever and useful iTunes plug-in that scans your artists to find local concert dates, has updated to v1.2. In addition to "greatly improved" concert listings in both the US and UK, iConcertCal can now export calendars ...

Found Footage: Custom Apple TV plug-ins debut

by Erica Sadun (Mar 28th, 2007)

Awkward TV has posted this video showing a custom Apple TV plug-in in action. The post mentions that this is the second known custom plug-in (you can see the first in action here), and that it allows you to play .AVI files located on the main disk (rather than the iPod-esque Media library). For ...

Automator Action: Upload to Box.net

by David Chartier (Jan 14th, 2007)

We mentioned Box.net, an iDisk-like online hard drive service, back when we could begin mounting them on our Macs. To simplify uploading files to your Box.net account, Daniel Ryan has created an Automator action that not only lets you upload with a simple right click, but it also takes care of ...

Gee Three releases Slick plug-in updates

by Erica Sadun (Nov 26th, 2006)

Good news for iMovie 6 users. Gee Three has updated several of their Slick plug-in volumes. These plug-ins add all sorts of visual effects to iMovie for the amateur video enthusiast. Apparently, the reason for the updates is that the iMovie/QuickTime interface wasn't too happy handling flash ...